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Gutters and Downspouts

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    Help Installing Gutters

    A plastic wedge holds the drip edge off the fascia without scratching it.

  • Working With Wood Gutters

    Builder Scott McBride recounts his time cleaning and rebuilding wood gutters, including the advantages to wood gutters and the key to wood-gutter longevity.

  • Podcast 200: Home Shops, Working Lead-Safe, and Keeping Cool in Carolina

    The regular team discusses pole building vs. slab-on-grade, reducing lead exposure, and using batts for a double-stud wall.

  • Podcast 199: Roof-insulation Retrofit, Codes for Existing Buildings, and Air-sealing Tape Choices

    The Fine Homebuilding Editors discuss framing details for adding rigid foam over a roof, when a remodeler needs to refer to the International Existing Building Code, what tapes work well for weatherizing an attached garage, and more.

  • Rain Diverter Protects an Uncovered Exterior Entryway

    A simple formed-metal strip fastened under asphalt roof shingles diverts rainwater sideways toward a gutter to keep the area below a little drier.

  • How to Hang Half-Round Gutters

    This classic look is made even better with modern materials.

  • Functional Water Feature

    A Japanese rain chain turns the mundane task of getting water from your gutters to the ground into an artistic experience

  • Wood-like Fiberglass Gutters

    Low maintenance fiberglass replica of wooden gutters for historic homes

  • Fixing Common Gutter Blunders

    Design and install gutters as if they prevent damp foundations, peeling paint, and mold—because they do.

  • V-11 Rain Diverter

    The Vertex V-11 has a 220° curve that recirculates rainwater in a spiral pattern

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